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Title	Mozilla: Firefox plugin shipped with malicious code
Type	News
Source	IDG News Service 05/07/2008
Summary	Mozilla warned Wednesday that a malicious program inserted adware code into a Firefox plugin that has been downloaded thousands of times over the past three months. continue

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